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DOVER, N. H. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH 



OF 



DOVER'S PARTICIPATION 



IN THE 



SPANISH -AMERICAN WAR 



May 12, 1898, to 
October 31, 1898 



Compiled by 

FRED E. QUIMBY 

City Clerk 



DOVER'S PARTICIPATION IN THE SPANISH- 
AMERICAN WAR. 



FRED E. QUIMBY 



FOR a period of more than a quarter of a century pre- 
ceding the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, 
the Island of Cuba, a possession of Spain since the days 
of Cortez, gasping an^ struggling under the cruel rule 
of its Castilian master, was agitated and disturbed by 
constantly recurring waves of political turmoil and 
chaotic revolt. In 1895 the insurrection assumed such 
proportions as to become a veritable war. General 
Weyler, who was sent from Spain to operate against 
the insurgents, promptly inaugurated a campaign of 
extermination, adopting such vicious and revolting 
methods of warfare as to arouse the righteous indigna- 
tion of the entire civilized world. 

That the activity of the fillibuster party in Cuba 
and the States, was secretly concerned in intensifying 
the sympathies of the American people in behalf of the 
belligerent islanders in their heroic struggle for lib- 
erty, although more than half suspected at the time, 
coincided so completely with our established policy of 
individual freedom and perfect equality, as to mini- 
mize, to the vanishing point, what might otherwise 
have been regarded as a serious and grievous offense. 
It was largely through the efforts of this party that our 
National government, following its recognition of the 
Cuban belligerents, sent an armed battleship, the ill- 
fated "Maine," on a friendly visit to Havana harbor, 
in January, 1898. 

On the fifteenth day of February following, this 



behemoth of war, flying the Stars and Stripes, was 
sunk, carrying down with her to the bottom of the har- 
bor, her brave and strong and splendid crew. 

The men of the Maine were a part of the bone and 
blood and sinew of our land. Whether they came from 
Naval school or civil life, they called each other "Com- 
rade," that gentle salutation of the human heart which 
lives in all the languages of men, that runs and winds 
and turns through all the joys and sorrows of the hu- 
man race, through deed and thought and dream, 
through song and toil and battlefield. No foe had ever 
challenged them ; the world can never know how brave 
they were. They never knew defeat; they never shall. 
While at their posts of duty sleep lured them into the 
abyss; then death unlocked their slumbering eyes but 
for an instant to behold its dreadful carnival, most of 
them just when life was full of hope and all its tides 
were at their highest, grandest flow; just when the 
early sunbeams were falling on the steeps of fame and 
flooding all life's landscape far out into the dreamy, 
distant horizon; just at that age when all the nymphs 
were making diadems and garlands, waving laurel 
wreaths before the eyes of young and eager manhood, 
— just then, when death seemed most unnatural. 

A naval court of inquiry, headed by Rear-Admiral 
Sampson, then Captain, investigated the cause of the 
disaster, and in its findings expressed the opinion that 
the Maine had been destroyed from without, probably 
by a submarine mine. 

The great heart of the American people, beating 
in saddened measure to the solemn requiem intoned by 
the sun-kissed waves of Havana harbor as they main- 
tained their ceaseless vigil o'er the dead, quickly turned 
from grievous lamentation and sent afar its stentorian 
appeal for vengeance. On April 19, in response to that 
appeal, Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing 



the President to use the army and navy of the United 
States for the purpose of carrying out a demand that 
Spain relinquish her sovereignty over Cuba and with- 
draw her forces from its territory. 

April 19th has indeed been a fateful day in Amer- 
ican history. The first bloodshed of the American 
Revolution was at Lexington and Concord, Massachu- 
setts, April 19, 1775. The proclamation by Congress de- 
claring a cessation of hostilities was read to the Amer- 
ican army April 19, 1783. The first conflict between 
Union volunteers and a Southern mob occurred at Bal- 
timore April 19, 1861. The blockade of all ports of 
seceding States was proclaimed by the President on the 
same date, April 19, 1861. The funeral services of 
Abraham Lincoln were held at the Executive mansion 
in Washington, and also memorial services for our 
martyred President were held throughout the country, 
on April 19, 1865, while on April 19, 1916, Congress 
met in special session to consider the situation grow- 
ing out of the sinking of neutral vessels by German 
submarines. 

On April 21, 1898, Spain dismissed United States 
Minister Woodruff, breaking off diplomatic relations 
with the American government, following that act on 
the 24th by a formal declaration of war. The gauge 
of battle was accepted by the United States on the day 
following, April 25. 

Carrying out the spirit of the Congressional reso- 
lution. President McKinley, on the 23rd of April, is- 
sued a proclamation, calling for 125,000 volunteers to 
serve in the armies of the United States for a period of 
two years, unless sooner discharged. 

The Third Regiment, New Hampshire National 
Guards, augmented by the Strafford Guards of Dover 
and the Sheridan Guards of Manchester, was selected 
to fill New Hampshire's quota, each company being 
required to recruit its ranks to a war standing. 



Just two weeks from the date of the President's 
proclamation, the members of the Strafford Guards, 
Captain Frank E. Rolhns, commanding, assembled at 
the armory, City building, from which point of rendez- 
vous, escorted by Charles W. Sawyer Post, No. 17, 
Grand Army of the Republic, Major A. J. H. Buzzell 
Camp, Sons of Veterans, the Sawyer Rifles, his Honor, 
Mayor Charles A. Fairbanks, and members of the City 
Government, the line of march was taken up for the 
Boston & Maine railroad station, en route for the State 
Camp-grounds at Concord. Music for the occasion 
was furnished by the Dover Cornet Band. Eloquent 
farewell addresses were delivered from the steps of the 
City Hall by his Honor, the Mayor, and Rev. George 
E. Hall, D. D., the latter also offering prayer. 

It was estimated that upwards of 10,000 people 
participated in the demonstration, business of all kinds 
being suspended until the departure of the train. 

The regiment was examined and mustered into 
service by Captain W. S. Edgerly, United States Army, 
May 7-13, and was designated as the First Regiment 
of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. On the 17th 
day of May the troops were entrained at Concord, 
their immediate destination being Camp Thomas, 
Chickamauga Park, Georgia. 

It was the privilege of the writer to be present 
and bid farewell to the officers and members of Com- 
pany F, as they left the State Capitol for the "Sunny 
South." It was an inspiring spectacle to witness the 
serried ranks of New Hampshire's sons — equipped 
with all the impedimentia of war — as they marched 
down Concord's principal thoroughfare toward the 
waiting train. To the impersonal observer the scene 
presented many elements of spectacular interest — yet 
to the more thoughtful, to those who had passed 
through the sanguinary days of 1861-65, the grim 



spectre of impending tragedy seemed to emerge from 
out the blue, and cast its baneful shadow o'er that war- 
like pageant, blotting out the glow and glamour of 
martial movement and shrouding all nature in the som- 
bre mantle of an indefinable sorrow, an inappeasable 
regret. 

After a few weeks of camp life under sunny- 
Southern skies, the First New Hampshire Regiment, 
recruited under the President's second call to 1272 en- 
listed men, was transferred to the Third Brigade, 
First Division, First Corps, preparatory to being sent 
to Santiago, to reinforce General William R. Shaffer. 
The success which had everywhere attended the Amer- 
ican arms, however, delayed the departure of rein- 
forcements, and the order was subsequently revoked. 

On July 23, the prospect of active duty was again 
imminent when orders were received to prepare for 
embarkation for Porto Rico; and on August 4th the 
Regiment was ordered to th-e provisional corps under 
General Wade, but neither of these orders were car- 
ried out. 

The naval forces, fully equipped for ordinary 
eventualities, were more quickly aligned for active 
duty than the military arm of our National defense. 
In two weeks there were eighty-eight effective fighting 
vessels under orders, and fifty-one new battleships or- 
dered built by Congress. 

The first stroke of the war was most startling and 
dramatic. While the land forces were being mobilized, 
the public eye was on the navy, the alert ear was lis- 
tening for the detonations of the big guns on the ships 
of war which had never been fired except in target 
practice. In the pending conflict the nations of the 
world were profoundly concerned. The mighty throng 
in the world's vast amphitheatre had not long to wait. 
Ten days after the opening of hostilities the reverber- 



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ations of one of the most remarkable naval battles in 
history were heard around the world. Commodore 
George Washington Dewey had led the Asiatic Squad- 
ron of the United States Navy, consisting of six war 
ships, into Manila harbor, and entirely crushed the 
Spanish ileet of fourteen ships, under Admiral Mon- 
tojo. In this historic engagement not one American 
life was lost or a single American ship disabled. 

From June 10, when the invasion of Cuba by the 
American forces began, until the battle of Santiago 
July 1, numerous engagements between the opposing 
forces occurred. Admiral Cervera, whose fleet of six 
vessels was anchored in the harbor, realizing that his 
place of refuge was becoming untenable determined to 
break through the deadly cordon that had been drawn 
by Commodore Schley and Admiral Sampson to pre- 
vent him from reaching the open sea. It was the story 
of Manila Bay over again. It was a courageous at- 
tempt, yet the skill and daring of the Spaniards could 
not cope with the new race in the land of Columbia. 
When the smoke of battle had cleared away, there 
were no Spanish ships to be seen afloat. Of the crews 
of the enemy vessels several hundred were killed or 
drowned, and 1300, including Admiral Cervera, cap- 
tured. 

The battle of Santiago practically terminated the 
war, as on the 26th of July Spain sued for peace. 

Incidental to the participation of Dover's citizens 
in the land forces of the Nation during that brief but 
sanguinary struggle, this ancient settlement was also 
represented in the naval movements which proved 
such an object lesson to the great powers of the earth 
in its marvelous evolutions and surprisingly effective 
activities. It is to be regretted that we are unable to 
secure an official list of Dover's sons who were in the 
navy during that period. At a later date we may be 



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enabled to submit a detailed and authentic chronicle of 
Dover's participation in that branch of military duty. 
We might be pardoned for briefly alluding to the serv- 
ice of Mr. Edgar A. Davis, of this city, who was en- 
rolled as chief electrician on the Annapolis during the 
Spanish-American war, as he was personally con- 
cerned in one of the closing episodes of that contest. 
Mr. Davis was connected with the "Mosquito Fleet," 
which patrolled the waters surrounding the Philippine 
Islands, and was later attached to the fleet which con- 
voyed the Spanish prisoners, including Admiral Cer- 
vera, to their place of internment on Seavey's Island, 
Portsmouth harbor. 

On the 12th of April, 1916, nearly eighteen years 
subsequent to the close of the war, the bodies of thirty- 
one of Admiral Cervera's followers who died while in 
captivity at Seavej^'s Island, Portsmouth harbor, were 
exhumed and delivered, with all the honors of war, to 
representatives of the Spanish government. In the re- 
moval of the bodies to the transport, the hearses of 
two of our local undertakers, Messrs. Tasker & Ches- 
ley and J. H. Grimes & Son, were employed. 

The United States lost, during the war, 503 men 
killed, and 1,415 wounded, while one ship, the Merri- 
mac, valued at $250,000.00, was sunk. The Spanish 
loss was 2,312 men killed, 3,260 wounded, while twen- 
ty-five ships, valued at $36,000,000.00, were destroyed. 
Spain, in addition, lost Cuba, Porto Rico and the La- 
drone Islands, a total of 49,087 square miles, with a 
population of 2,325,000, not counting the Philippines, 
with an area of 114,326 square miles, and 8,000,000 
population. 

Incidental to the general movement to muster in 
New Hampshire's quota, an effort was made to or- 
ganize, and secure official recognition of, a Naval Re- 
serve, to be raised in Somersworth, Portsmouth and 



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Dover, Hon. Charles A. Fairbanks, Gen. William D. 
Sawyer, Fred A. Bradbury, Major George H. Demeritt 
and Thomas E. Varney, were chosen as a committee 
to cooperate with a committee from Portsmouth in the 
enrollment of volunteers. The movement in Somers- 
worth was abandoned before any considerable number 
of signatures were obtained, leaving the prosecution 
of the enterprise to the com^mittees from Portsmouth 
and Dover. Muster-rolls were opened in the office of 
the City Clerk, where eighty-three signatures were se- 
cured, the preliminary meetings of the recruits being 
held in the banquet hall in the city building. 

Following is a complete list of those who signed 
the roll in Dover for a naval reserve corps, pledging 
themselves to serve for the terms of two years, unless 
sooner discharged : 



Francis Collins 
Frank Scribner 
Hazen C. Wadleigh 
Edward D. Farley 
Christopher Morley 
William A. Martin 
Albert S. Twombly 
Eli F. Clough 
James J. Lennon 
Irving D. Whitehouse 
William Hester 
Thomas McMahon 
John D. Mclntyre, 2d 
Michael I. Hayes 
Eddie F. Knott 
John Carney 
Patrick Fox 
William Bradley, Jr. 
John E. Hanson 
George A. Smart 



Eben R. Wadleigh 
William Brewitt 
William Rossiter 
E. Wilbur Fernald 
Clarence Whitehouse 
James O'Heron 
Frank J. Dondero 
John W. Rogers 
Harry H. Haley 
John Connell 
W. F. Kiernan 
Edward J. Lunney 
W. Fred Brown 
J. Myron Haley 
Charles W. Tuttle 
Chester Jenkins 
Owen Preston 
Oliver Boudreau 
John R. Parsons 
Allen T. Abrams 



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Joseph E. Irwin 
William Wallace Metcalf 
Thomas Hanaghan 
Joseph Gowen 
Benjamin Canney 
H. Bert Hagar 
Luke H. McEwan 
R. Arnold Hill 
Thomas Dobbins 
Charles E. Hanlon 
George A. Gate 
Herbert Clarke 
John Crowley 
Henry Ducharme 
Hugh Jackson 
Daniel Phelan 
James McNally 
John Scanlon 
William H. Moore 
A. E. Warren 
Herbert E. Header 
Edward Mone 



D. E. C. Duffy 
William Rollins 
Edward M. Qualey 
Frank M. Fernald 
Jesse C. Hebert 
B. F. Chaney 
F. W. Marshall 
James P. Lyons 
Thomas W. Lyons 
John Clancy 
Frank Grimes, Jr. 
Velor Desautell 
Peter Harvey 
Walter E. Veasey 
Joseph Gorman 
W. Arthur Taylor 
Patrick McKenna 
William Wolfenden 
Timothy McCarthy 
John Cassily 
Patrick Hughes 



Representatives of the two cities interested in the 
movement for a Naval Reserve Corps appeared before 
the Governor and Council on the 17th of May, for the 
purpose of advancing the project and incidentally to 
secure official recog'nition by the State authorities. 
But little encouragement was offered by his Excellency 
at the time, although the desirability of a Naval 
Reserve was made the basis of subsequent communica- 
tions between the New Hampshire State Capitol and 
the National Government. Whether or not our present 
Coast Artillery is an outgrowth of the interest aroused 
at that time is a matter of speculative interest. 

Several of the signers to the local muster-rolls, 
fearing that the movement to organize a naval Contin- 



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gent might not prove effectual, subsequently enlisted 
in the Strafford Guards, joining Company F at Chicka- 
mauga Park. 

While the New Hampshire troops were engaged 
in the routine of camp life at Chickamauga, rumors of 
serious illness among the men spread throughout the 
State, and the despatch of a thoroughly equipped hospi- 
tal train was prevented only by anticipatory action on 
the part of Colonel Tolles in sending thirty-nine of 
the invalids to their northern homes. Five members of 
Company F, Corporal Alexander McCabe, Privates 
Thos. McDonough, Oliver Boudreau, R. Arnold Hill 
and Patrick Ives, were among the number. Upon the 
arrival of the rescue train at Manchester, the invalids 
were immediately conveyed to the various hospitals in 
that city, where Private Boudreau passed away Sep- 
tember 5. Three deaths occurred in Company F during 
its period of military duty, namely : Corporal Cassius 
B. Roberts, August 3 ; Musician William Rossiter, 
August 24 ; and Private Oliver Boudreau, September 5. 
In each instance the deceased were laid to rest with 
military honors, the entire community joining in the 
sad and solemn ceremonies. 

On Monday, September 5, the First New Hamp- 
shire Regiment left Lexington, Kentucky, for the 
State Camp-grounds at Concord, four trains having 
been requisitioned for the purpose. The train reached 
Manchester late Thursday afternoon, where thirty-five 
of the returning volunteers, including James Duffy 
and Irving Whitehouse of this city, were taken to the 
hospitals, and fifteen removed by special train to Ports- 
mouth. Five of this latter contingent, John R. Ma- 
loney, Austin E. Sanborn, Frank H. Swain, Hugh 
Donnelly and Charles E. Foster, were members of 
Company F, The interest manifested by Mayor Fair- 
banks in all matters effecting the welfare of Dover's 
citizen soldiers is deserving of special mention. 



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THE RETURN HOME 



On Tuesday, September 12, Company F was fur- 
loug-hed, after four months of service, and left Concord 
on the 3.20 train for home. The reception accorded 
the bronzed and weather beaten men upon their arrival 
at 6.16, will ever live in the memory of those who 
participated in the ceremonies of that hour. The spon- 
taneity with which the projected programme was 
carried out was a fitting finale to the intense interest 
with which the people of this good old town had fol- 
lowed the course of its citizen soldiery during the 
period of its military life. The approach of the long- 
looked-for train was duly heralded by the brazen tones 
of Comrade John A. Goodwin's cannon, and as the 
rumbling echoes died away cheer after cheer, in ever 
increasing volume, rent the evening air. It was a 
scene of wildest enthusiasm, in which untold thousands 
joined. 

It was with the utmost difficulty than an opening 
through the surging mass of humanity was made for 
the passage of the martial line, but at last the order 
to move was given, and to inspiring strains of music, 
in the glare of colored lights and blazing rockets, the 
march to the city building was begun. 

Upon arriving at the City Hall the line was 
brought to a halt, his Honor the Mayor, Chaplain 
George E. Hall, members of the City Councils and City 
officials, taking position upon the broad steps where 
but a few weeks before they had assembled to bid fare- 
well to the departing host. 

Mayor Fairbanks, in behalf of the citizens, ex- 
tended a most sincere welcome to the soldier boys, 
eloquently alluding to the loyalty and devotion to prin- 
ciple of the willing volunteer, proclaiming that the man 
who endured the rigor and irksome routine of camp 



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life was as great a hero as he who marched on the 
firing line in the glare and heat of battle. 

At the close of the exercises at the City Hall the 
line was reformed, and marched to Grand Army Hall, 
where an elegant collation had been prepared by the 
ladies of the Relief Corps, that loyal body of women 
whose untiring efforts during the war contributed so 
largely to the comfort and happiness of the absent. 

In all the wars in which this great country of 
ours has been engaged, from Lexington to the shell- 
torn soil of France, the call to arms has ever been 
in defense of those votive offerings our forefathers laid 
upon the imperishable altar of human liberty. 

At the same shrine may this great Nation, clothed 
in the armor of eternal justice, knowing no fear other 
than the fear of God and dishonor, be permitted to 
exercise its mighty power toward adjusting the poise 
of Nations, that the reign of a lasting world peace may 
be secured. 

Muster-in Roll of Captain Frank E. Rollins, Co. F, 
of the First Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer 
Infantry, commanded by Colonel Robert H. Rolfe, 
called into service by the President of the United 
States, April 23d, 1898, from the 12th day of May, 
1898, for the term of two years unless sooner dis- 
charged. (Mustered out October 31, 1898.) 

Frank E. Rollins, b. Alton, N. H.; age 34; must. -in as Captain. 

Continued in service until mustered out. 
Frank H. Keenan, b. Dover, N. H.; age 36; must.-in as 1st 

Lieut. Detached as Chief Commissary 3d Div., 1st Army 

Corps, June 2, 1898; returned to duty w^ith his Company 

July 6, 1898; appointed A. C. S., of 1st New Hampshire 

Infantry, July 19, 1898. 
Lewis E. Tuttle, b. Dover, N. H.; age 28; must.-in as 2nd Lieut.; 

continued in service until mustered out. 
John J. Galley, b. Toronto, Canada; age 24; must.-in as pinvate; 

promoted to 1st Sergt., May 12, 1898. 



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Herbert C. Grime, b. Dover, N. H.; age 31; enrolled as private; 

must.-in as Q. M. Sergt., May 12, 1898; made Sergt. and 

detached on special duty as Brig. Com. Sergt., July 28,1898. 
John Sunderland, b. Monohan, Ireland; age 23; enrolled as 

private; must.-in as 2nd Sergt., May 12, 1898. 
Joseph T. Cronin, b. Boston, Mass.; age 21; must.-in as private; 

promoted to Sergt., May 12, 1898. 
Frank F. Davis, b. Dover, N. H.; age 22; enrolled as private; 

must.-in as 4th Sergt., May 12, 1898. 
Joseph Connell, b. Derry, N. H.; age 21; enrolled as private; 

must.-in as 5th Sergt., May 12, 1898. 
John R. Maloney, b. Dover, N. H.; age 21; enrolled as private; 

must.-in as Corp., May 12, 1898. 
Frank E. Russ, b. St. Johnsbury, Vermont; age 30; enrolled as 

private; must.-in as Corp., May 12, 1898. 
Edgar M. Foss, b. Dover, N. H.; age 44; enrolled as private; 

must.-in as Corp., May 12, 1898. 
Cassius B. Roberts, b. Dover, N. H.; age 23; enrolled as private; 

must.-in as Corp., May 12, 1898. Died August 3, 1898, at 

3d Div. 1st Army Corps Hospital, Camp Thomas, Georgia. 
Alexander J. McCabe, b. Dover, N. H.; age 23; enrolled as 

private; must.-in as Corp., May 12, 1898. 
James J. McNally, b. Dover, N. H.; age 21; enrolled as private; 

must.-in as Corp., May 12, 1898. 
Austin E. Sanborn, b. Pembroke, N. H.; age 25; enrolled as 

private; must.-in as Artificer, May 12, 1898. 
John P. Miniter, b. Dover, N. H.; age 22; enrolled as private; 

appointed Wagoner, May 12, 1898. 
John B. Hebert, b. Albany, N. Y.; age 23; enrolled as private; 

must.-in as Musician, May 12, 1898. 
William Rossiter, b. Dover, N. H.; age 21; enrolled as private; 

must.-in as Musician, May 12, 1898. Died August 24, 1898, 

at 3d Div. 1st Army Corjis Hospital, Camp Thomas, Georgia. 



MUSTERED-IN AS PRIVATES 

MAY 12, 1898 

and Enrolled by Captain Frank E. Rollins 

Averill, Nelson E., b. Newmarket, N. H.; age 23. 
Boudreau, Willie, b. Sherbrooke, Canada; age 22. 
Boudreau, Oliver, b. Somersworth, N. H.; age 18. Died at Notre 
Dame Hospital, Manchester, N. H., Sept. 5, 1898. 



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Brooks, Harry E., b. Dover, N. H.; age 21; promoted Corp., 

June 13, 1898. 
Burley, John, b. Dover, N. H.; age 21. 
Canney, Benjamin R., b. Dover, N. H.; age I'J. 
Carney, John, b. Cork, Ireland; age 26. 
Carroll, John E., b. Dover, N. H.; age 22. 
Cockrane, Ralph R., b. Rollinsford, N. H.; age 18. 
Connell, William, b. Glasgow, Scotland; age 19. 
Cordes, Edward W., b. Hanover, Germany; age 2G; promoted 

Corp., Aug. 5, 1898. 
Cormier, Willie J., b. Somersworth, N. H.; age 20. 
Costello, James, b. Lancashire, England; age 23. 
Cronin, James J., b. Manchester, N. H.; age 22. 
CuiTan, John A., b. Quebec, Canada; age 21. 
Doherty, Edward, b. Dublin, Ireland; age 33; transferred to 

Band, July 27, 1898. 
Donnelly, Hugh, b. Amagh, Ireland; age 21. 
Drouin, Joseph, b. Quebec, Canada; age 25. 
Duffy, James F., b. Amagh, Ireland; age 24. 
Duffy, Thomas, b. Monohan, Ireland; age 18. 
Foss, Pearl, b. Dover, N. H.; age 21. 
Glidden, Frank H., b. Lowell, Mass; age 20. 
Hanratty, Owen E., b. Dover, N. H.; age 22. 
Hill, R. Arnold, b. Stockholme, N. Y.; age 19. 
Houghton, Herbert B., b. Newbury, Vermont; age 42. 
Hughes, Henry, b. Dover, N. H.; age 21. 
Jackson, Fred O., b. Dover, N. H.; age 26. 
Jean, Ignace, b. Mont Cannel, Canada; age 27. 
Kidney, John, b. Dover, N. H.; age 23, promoted Coi-p., July 

13, 1898. 
Lamire, Amay, b. Quebec, Canada; age 21. 
Leach, Perlie, b. Milton, N. H.; age 18. 
Lique, Frank, b. Rochester, N. H.; age 24. 
Mahoney, William J., b. Dover, N. H.; age 27. 
Marquis, George, b. Quebec, Canada; age 19. 
Marquis, Emil, b. Quebec, Canada; age 21. 
McDonald, John T., b. Woburn, Mass.; age 21. 
McDonald, Hugh E., b. Nashua, N. H.; age 24. 
McCooey, John J., b. Dover, N. H.; age 23. 
Merchant, Arthur H., b. Newmarket, N. H.; age 20. 
Morley, Christopher, b. Lancashire, England; age 34. 
Mooney, Owen J., b. Castlemagh, Ireland; age 20. 
Murphy, Edward M., b. Dover, N. H.; age 35. 
Nason, Frank 0., b. Rollinsford, N. H.; age 23. 



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Pingree, Arthur M., b. Rochester, N. H.; age 24. 

Pinkham, Carroll E., b. Dover, N. H.; age 21. 

Ramsey, Alric W., b. Melrose, Mass.; age 21; promoted Corp., 

July 13, 1898. 
Rodden, James, b. Dover, N. H.; age 35; appointed Cook, August 

1, 1898. 
Rogers, John W., b. Dover, N. H.; age 19. 
Rowe, Frank A., b. Concord, N. H.; age 18. 
Savoie, Joseph W., b. Somerset, Canada; age 24. 
Stew^art, Almon H., b. Weston, Maine; age 23. 
Steuerwald, Fred W., b. Dover, N. H.; age 19. 
Sunderland, James, b. Castlebarney, Ireland; age 21. 
Swaine, Frank H., b. Dover, N. H.; age 22; promoted Corp., 

July 13, 1898. 
Tanner, Ralph G., b. Chicago, Illinois; age 21. 
Taylor, Albert A.; b. Madbury, N. H.; age 19. 
Trainor, Michael J., b. Monohan, Ireland; age 22; i)romoted 

Corp., July 13, 1898. 
Tuttle, Clarence R., b. Dover, N. H.; age 21. 
Webber, William G., b. Newfields, N. H.; age 19; discharged 

Sept. 13, 1898. 
Whitehouse, Clarence H., b. Dover, N. H.; age 21; promoted 

Corp., June 3, 1898; detached on recruiting service June 9, 

1898; returned to duty July 10, 1898. 
Whitehouse, Irving L., b. Somersworth, N. H.; age 21. 
Willey, George W., b. East Candia, N. H.; age 21. 
Wood, Henry R., b. Somersworth, N. H.; age 21. 

Recruits Under Second Call 

Allaire, Louis, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 27, 1898. 
Copson, John, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in July 1, 1898. 
Dunroy, George, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 21, 1898. 
English, Philip, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 23, 1898. 
Foster, Charles E., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 

30, 1898. 
Gentilly, Nelson, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 22, 1898. 
Glading, Frank L., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 17, 

1898. 
Gray, Jasper L., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 21, 1898. 
Hall, John W., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 21, 1898. 
Hanson, George A., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in July 1, 

1898. 
Hoyt, Fred O., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 17, 1898. 



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Irvine:, Robert W., ered. Manchester, N. II., must.-in June 17, 

1898. 
Ives, Patrick H., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 22, 1898. 
Keolig, Robert F., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 28, 

1898. 
Kerwick, William G., cred. Concord, N. H., must.-in July 9, 1898. 
Kidd, George A., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 30, 1898. 
Lougee, George, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 28, 1898. 
Martin, Clifford, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 17, 1898. 
McCauley, William, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 

24, 1898. 
Perreault, Fred, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 27, 1898. 
Porter, Clinton A., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 28, 

1898. 
Riley, Edv^^ard F., cj'ed. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 27, 

1898. 
Spencer, Fred W., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 21, 

1898. 
Steiner, Fritz, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in July 1, 1898. 
Vickery, Charles W., cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 21, 

1898. 
Wolfe, William, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 28, 1898. 
Wood, Edwin C, cred. Manchester, N. H., must.-in June 23, 1898. 



In addition to the Dover citizens whose names 
appear in the preceding muster-in rolls, there are near- 
ly a score of men living in this city today, who were 
enrolled in the service of "Uncle Sam" during the war 
with Spain, The names of these gentlemen are given 
below : 

Hon. Chas. E. T. Caswell Hon. Chas. G. Waldron 

Henry C. Kinney George Roussin 

George M. Randall William Beck 

Henry Larsen Louis A. Chayer 

Leroy Smith James H. McKeon 

William D. Stone James W. Haley 

Ansel Holman Alonzo Brichstead 

Samuel Douglass John J. Brennan 

Peter J, Duffy Frank Carragher 



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The Spanish-American war, although of short 
duration, exerted a potential influence in spreading 
the doctrine of self-government and human liberty 
throughout the habitats of mankind. The sacrifices 
of that brief struggle were not in vain. The inade- 
quacy of the government to meet the countless necessi- 
ties of "camp and field and troubled seas," impressed 
its sorrowful lesson upon the great heart of the Ameri- 
can Republic, a lesson which proved fruitful in its 
results in that later conflict which embroiled the na- 
tions of the world. More than fifty per cent, of the 
officials in that later struggle were drawn from the 
men who sought service in the War of 1898. 

It is from life's stern vicissitudes that we glean 
knowledge and experience to meet those great prob- 
lems which are constantly confronting us in our prog- 
ress through the fleeting years, not only as individuals 
but as one of the foremost nations of the age. 



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